foully

Adverb

Meaning

In a foul manner; filthily; nastily; shamefully; unfairly; dishonorably.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

insultingly badly foul grossly awfully wickedly flagrantly monstrously terribly offensively slovenly hideously corruptly abominably basely
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Antonyms

fairly purely divinely cleanly amicably courteously
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Phrases with the word

less foully

Examples

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. Bernard Cornwell

two policemen were foully murdered Source: Internet

this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists Source: Internet

He is unsure whether Macbeth committed regicide to gain the throne, but muses in a soliloquy that "I fear / Thou play'dst most foully for 't". Source: Internet

No wonder if among an adulterous and incestuous people, in which both births and marriages are illegitimate, a nation out of the pale of the laws, nature herself should be foully corrupted by perverse habits. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Foulke Foulkes Foulks foulmart foulmouth foulmouthed